5 months ago
Bring your children and grandchildren to the Salina Symphony on Sat. Jan. 24, at 1 p.m. at the Stiefel Theatre for this year’s Family Concert, The Harmony Games! Enjoy an afternoon of music and more with The Harmony Games, a story that tells of four families who, after fighting for as long as anyone could remember, ...

5 months ago
Meteorologists from the National Weather Service are preparing for a kind of barnstorming tour to help prepare storm spotters and weather enthusiasts for the upcoming severe weather season, and will be making a stop in Salina. Saline County Emergency Management, in partnership with the National Weather Service in Wichita, will host the annual Storm Fury on ...

5 months ago
A couple of Salina organizations are among  64 community-based organizations and local and state agencies receiving a portion of $10.4 million in federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant funding. Among those receiving funding are: Child Advocacy & Parenting Services (CAPS) - $67,677 Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas (DVACK) - $369,402 “The services these 64 organizations ...

5 months ago
Police are investigating another break-in at a Salina bar involving a gaming machine. Police Captain Jim Feldman says officers were sent to Chuck's Bar at 600 N Santa Fe at 7:45 Wednesday morning to the report of a burglary. Sometime in the early morning hours after the bar closed, a thief gained entry by forcing open a ...

5 months ago
Kansas legislators will pursue a statewide school cellphone ban, superseding the state education board’s past directives to allow local districts to deal with cellphones as they see fit. The initiative already has the support of two-thirds of the Senate, according to a joint announcement from Sens. Chase Blasi, an Andale Republican, and Dinah Sykes, a Lenexa ...

5 months ago
A scenario played out Wednesday afternoon as multiple agencies descended on the Salina City / County Building after an active shooter entered and was ultimately taken out by court security. It was a drill several years in the making, coordinated by Saline County Emergency Management. Saline County Emergency Management Director Michelle Weis tells KSAL News one ...

5 months ago
Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers were busy keeping roads and highways safe over the New Year's holiday and into the weekend. According to the agency, KHP personnel assisted 687 motorists over the holiday reporting period. Troopers also worked two fatal crashes, in Jefferson and Ford counties. Among other things, they also made 25 DUI arrests, and wrote 572 ...

5 months ago
Saline County Commissioner Joe Hay spent a good portion of yesterday listening to county residents voice their concerns and dislikes for a proposed energy storage facility to be built a couple of miles north of Southeast of Saline school. Today he spent time on the KSAL Morning News Extra talking about the reasons he voted to ...

5 months ago
One year ago today, Salina residents were still digging out of a widespread snowstorm that left streets, driveways and parking lots snow-packed and icy. Today's forecast calls for mostly sunny skies, breezy south wind with a high near 63. According to the National Weather Service, the January 2025 storm saw some of largest snowfall amounts ever ...

5 months ago
A Salina man was taken to jail after allegedly threatening a school official over the phone and battering a police officer. Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that 39-year-old Chad Everett was arrested on Tuesday evening following a string of events earlier in the day. Police say Everett called Sunset Elementary with a complaint he wanted ...

5 months ago
Preparing for the unthinkable is part of the mindset that faith leaders and communities around the nation are beginning to embrace. Saline County Emergency Management Director Michelle Weis joined in on the KSAL Morning News Extra with a look at some straight forward seminars planned for later this month. The Kansas Division of Emergency Management is hosting ...